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Perhaps 99% of people need to look up how their computer works before using it. And that includes smart phones. And perhaps that same 99% of people need to realise: They are the people who make identity fraud and all the implications possible. Not to mention mass DDoS attacks do to bot nets. And the statement "I don'...
Wow, actually have to give the NYT props for once. Net neutrality is not just a meaningless term. It has a meaning and Google's concept of an "open internet" is in direct conflict with that meaning.
Wow, a post on Reddit I actually have some valuable input on! Let me first say that I agree with a lot of what this article has to say, on that note, I have "Social Media Coordinator" on my resume. I'm currently a student of interactive arts and my first co-op term was at a large shipping company in my home city. T...
In our digital world, uninhibited communications between people is an essential human right. Anything less, and we are not truly free. Governments and corporations have repeatedly demonstrated that they act in the interests of their owners and leaders, not the masses which they govern and to which they provide servic...
Only two problems - the laws of physics and basic mathematics. The maths first: Mesh networks can't scale. One of the papers linked to where n is the number of nodes in the network". Without backbones capable of carrying large amounts of traffic, every link must be massively over-provisioned to offer sufficient ban...
Edit: [Here's an article about them.]( Can someone link a description of what they aim to achieve/how they aim to achieve it? It seems there's already a group called [Darknet]( but doesn't look like they're related to this project.
Yes, this. First and foremost, a "darknet" would only be feasible for short-range communications, as others have said. If the idea of the darknet is truely to stay anonymous from Big Brother, there are much better ways of doing so. E-Mail lists with strong encryption would be a place to start. Or perhaps a news n...
For the lazy: >Imagine that every time you mailed a letter to Santa, the post office would open it to make sure you weren't asking for any toys your parents said you couldn't have. >Now lets say you really wanted a BB gun, but your parents said you couldn't have one. If you mailed your letter to santa, the postmen ...
You. Friggin. IDIOTS! I don't want to sound unsupportive or antagonistic, but the OP's title is clearly misleading. The original article is titled Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban And the first sentence of the article is such: >Senators want to stop feeds which boast of insurgent attacks on Nato f...
I realize that you're simply trying to make the point that not necessarily all killing is evil, which is fair, so lets discuss it. Well first, time-travel is a type 2 impossibility. > Class II Impossibilities are “technologies that sit at the very edge of our understanding of the physical world," possibly taking th...
I agree that it is not useful for production parts, and at the moment it is still mostly useful for prototyping. However, this technology has been decreasing in cost and increasing in capability over the years, so I think within ten years we may see this as a common household appliance within the range of expense of th...
I actually regret buying my WD TV Live Hub. If you do decide to get one, do not get the "Hub" version with the built in Terabyte drive. I didn't research thoroughly enough before buying, but you can't run the hacked OS versions on the Live Hub, so I'm stuck with the WD firmware which is just horrible. The worst th...
They are "free". You only pay if you want to get ahead faster. No "freemium" game do you actually have to pay, unless it is the "lite" version and you want to unlock the full version of the game. Example 1: Tiny Tower. I play this game, it is a freemium game. In app purchases give you cash which allow you do things f...
The artists signed contracts. In those contracts, the percentage that would be given to the artist was outlined. It's not stealing, it's what was agreed upon. Before you believe that, read two things: The Problem with Music [Courtney Love does the Math]( - by Courtney Love
So a lot of people have a different opinion than yours we are "fucking retarded"? God it almost pains me to be nice to you. Lemme try to explain it to you. "Artist" is exactly the right word for it though, quotes and all because they aren't real artists. There are so many bands and singers who do make their own mus...
I work in the music industry as an artist and mix engineer, and I just have to say that the money in the industry is still there. The people at the top are using scare tactics because, well, they are scared. Imagine growing up in a world that operates a certain way and you have made your life in that world. Now, ev...
From >Code division multiple access (CDMA) networks tend to use handset-based radiolocation technologies, which are technically more similar to radionavigation. GPS is one of those technologies. Alltel, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile 3G, and Sprint PCS use Assisted GPS.[7] and slightly before that >AT&T Mobility init...
The availability to purchase and download a movie instantly is great, but why are we being so greedy? Although I have similar frustrations I would like to point out a few things in defense of the studios in regards to changing technology and distribution: In the past purchasing a DVD/VHS was kind of a pain. The sto...
They use aluminum to make plenty of products that are durable and don't scratch. It's one of the most well understood and widely used metals in the world. Plus, it has a great thermal conductivity (makes stainless look like an insulator) so it cools the device roughly 10 to 100 times better. Believe me, a lot of though...
I would really like to see this combined with procedural generation of the game environment based on info taken from the user's surroundings. It reminds me of all the opinions at one point that people would like to see a game with the wandering ability of Skyrim mixed with the world of Pokemon. With a headset providing...
Urine is energy-poor. Meaning not a fuel (in terms of getting positive net energy output under normal conditions). HOWEVER, it is an electrolyte, nearly free and accessible anywhere. Unlike table salt, which is not easy or cheap to obtain away from civilization (or saltwater, salt mine etc.). Working backwards fr...
With regards to impact, I think loss of life and cancer is going to be very low and hard to determine, even over 40+ years, due to the efforts of the Japanese government at quickly evacuating people and quarantining food supplies. There have been some official reports which claim the loss of life was likely greater fro...
Whoa, just checked out 8pen. What a neat idea, it looks like it has an absurd and rather illogical learning curve, but if everybody took the time to learn it it could be the input method of the future. Personally, I find Swype to be ideal, as it shares the existing QWERTY keyboard it's learning curve isn't nearly as...
I have to disagree with you on that. One of my m8's in my robotics class is a contracter/programmer. Of the 6 projects he has worked on in the past 4 months, 5 of them had previously been shipped overseas to programmers in India. After they messed up the jobs so much, the companies brought the project back to the US so...
BTGuard is shit. I couldnt get their vpn to work with the built in windows 8 software and had to resort to their OpenVPN software and that was slow as shit. I get 100 megabits normally and with their VPN i got < 1 megabit. I filed a support ticket to help me and they closed it without replying. Then they canceled m...
If you are familiar with money laundering, its kind of analogous to that. Except its legal (for now): With money laundering, you take your illegally obtained money and funnel it through a ligitimate operation to obscure the source. This is kind of what a VPN service does for people who torrent, except it also has man...
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This is not my comment. I got this from another redditor. >Stop freaking the fuck out for no reason, internet. Reddit looks like a goddamn Tea Party rally right now. Seriously, it's like watching a thousand clones of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly typographically blow each other. >[Read]( [all]( [of]( [...
Other then not a lot of charge stations and the time to charge I have one more complaint that Consumer Reports doesn't cover. What about my sound system! All the batteries in the car are dedicated to the car's systems. They can run for about six hours on those batteries. However, I have a 1000 watt amplifier hooked u...
No i'm not a windows fanboy. Are you a linux fanboy then? I just use the tech that i find more useful for myself. I'm using all three mentioned systems every day and they all have their pros and cons. I think the rest of this text is just biased opinions so i can't really comment on that. I've used all three systems ...
If Apple wants to make it more difficult (non-standard) to use their products, then so be it. Besides making it more convenient, I don't see any legitimate reason to create legislature for this. If you don't like Apple, then don't buy their products. If having a universal charger is that big a flaw that will lose them ...
Yep. I was traveling for work last night, long drive to some city I'd never been to before. As per usual, I was using my phone as GPS and audio player for the entire drive. Little did I know, the microUSB charger which was absolutely plugged directly into my phone had apparently wiggled into some odd angle where it l...
They considered and rejected that idea since the USB connector is a poor design. The Lightning cable is a superior connector (purely considering physical aspects and electronic/protocol aspects), but the downside is that it's proprietary. Apple are all over the map with connectors - sometimes they do it right, like...
This is the problem with lawmakers that have too much time on their hands. Legislature does not exist to tell us what kind of cable we must use. It exists to ensure protection of our rights. If said lawmakers forget their cable and cannot use another cable to charge their phone, then maybe they will remember their cabl...
I won't say 'better'. That's way to subjective a word. I will say that yes, there is a huge difference in performance. My sister has a Galaxy S4, it's a nice phone. However, when I mess around with it, I notice that it still suffers from occasional GUI lag. This is a flagship device. This issue is also pretty common ...
My view: I don't own a multimillion dollar corporation but damage control should not only replace it free of charge with no shady legal contracts, but if it was my company, I would throw it one of my top of the line tablets. It might cost the company about $1500 (phone and tablet), but the good PR would more than mak...
I think it’s fair to say that once again Nokia has set basically set the bar for the rest of the smartphone imaging world – in terms of both hardware and software features. It's a step forwards from the PureView 808, and from the Lumia 920 / 925 / 928. Of course, the ultimate question is whether consumers are going to ...
WP8 has some glaring deficiencies when it comes to tier 1 apps and especially for Google apps that are available on other platforms. The WP8 apps, on the other hand, are awesome. The People hub, the Music and Gaming hubs, I prefer them to what is available on Android and iOS. The integration is cleaner and deeper. ...
Please, reread what you wrote. Go and ask yourself if your boss would like what you've written, and if it reflects well upon the brand you represent. Ask yourself if you're showing a respectful view of your customers, too. Do remember, they're always right. When they're maybe, actually unright, there's proper channelsv...
at my previous place I bought a used modem from amazon, the reviews said it is compatible with Comcast, but also that this particular modem was cheap and breaks frequently. Of course after a week, it started having problems connecting, and eventually wouldnt connect anymore. Tech came out, determined it was shot, they ...
These other companies make way more money though. Google is getting a boost because they keep increasing how much they are making at a good percentage 3 billion profit a quarter turns to 4 billion. Most importantly everyone feels their core business is not only on pretty dominate standing, but also they feel confident...
Hosting provider is far different than an internet provider so your analogy is terrible. It's not my analogy but rather your comprehension that is terrible. I neither said nor meant hosting provider. I thought it was pretty clear but I meant Internet provider. CogentCo provides Netflix's bandwidth. Verizon must...
Hosting provider is far different than an internet provider so your analogy is terrible. On top of that what you fail to realize is say Netflix bought into this terrible idea that they will pay to be sponsored. Two things are going to happen: All other companies in that market are going to have to do the same jus...
Try it and find out. Rich people call the offices of politicians and government officials all the time and get results w/o spending a dime and get their voices heard. I work in the public sector and the most aggravating thing is holding public meetings where only well paid white collar workers (doctors, lawyers, atto...
The STOCK Act? Despite the exaggerated headlines, the STOCK Act did not make insider trading illegal for Congress. Insider trading is illegal for everyone. Period. There is no provision anywhere that grants Congress immunity from insider trading laws. The STOCK Act clarified that Congress was not exempt, but it did...
If you consider 2 days generous $0 if you report the loss or theft of the card immediately and the card has not been used up to $50 if you notify the bank within two business days after you realize the card is missing up to $500 if you fail to notify the bank within two business days after you realize the card ...
The hype of Apple Pay at least benefits everyone using NFC payments. Apple partnered up with a lot of retailers to make Apple Pay happen in their stores, which adds more NFC payment places, and Apple "hyping" something your phone has done for years only makes NFC payments as a whole more popular.
Some actual data >According to FICO, France implemented technology 12 years ago that makes it much harder to steal credit card information. The reward for Gallic diligence: Criminals in France now concentrate on identity theft. In the US you are very likely to get your cards skimmed, the devices used to be clunky ...
That may be true, but you're short whatever they took for the duration of the investigation. I had my identity stolen while in Paris; both my credit and debit card were compromised. There were two charges on each a few weeks after I returned. One, a test to see if the card numbers worked, was for around a dollar. The...
Banks are by their nature secure. A bank exists as a way to place large sums of money in a secure location with the benefit of insurance for security. Whether or not they are actually secure depends on a number of things, but let's talk best case scenario and say they're pretty good. A retailer is not secure. They ex...
When you pay with NFC you are just transmitting payment information over a different medium, it's not a different card/account. You're just sending payment information with a 13.56Mhz radio over a few inches, versus by reading a magnetic stripe on your card. The actual information you send when you use NFC payment is s...
Yes and No. A store is not obligated to accept all payment types. They can say cash only, no checks, no Discover, no Amex, Visa only. Those stores gain and lose business by those decisions. (I never shopped at Costco because I didn't have an AMEX when I lived near one.) What people are calling foul over is that ...
They do if the traffic is encrypted. Unless they've found a way to break SSL encryption (which I highly, highly doubt), they do need physical access to the server. Hasn't it been a recurring theme that encryption only protects you from casual hackers but not from large, well funded, government security agencies? I'...
I'd like to think that it would be that simple. It was an existing service area (no equipment/new runs) I've had nothing but good service (I was playing an MMO at like 2am on a Sat night when the service dropped, I called and they told me they could have someone there in about 45m. I declined citing I didn't want m...
Maybe research it properly before moving? That's a start. Business Class in my area mostly requires a pre-install site survey, which would need to be performed before services can be transferred. Someone would visit the place before they can tell the customer anything about what their install costs would be - MANY busi...
The laws are at least in some way based on reality. The reality is that cable companies don't collude with competitors for the sake of not building over one another. They don't need to. It's given , based on the places you're talking about them servicing. Every additional service on the poles or in an easement increas...
Because Sandstorm was the first real trancey EDM that hit the radio... All of the cool "party kids" came to hate it instantly when it did. For this was the beginning of the end of the underground scene. The music hit mainstream, and now everybody and their dog started coming to the parties, drunk usually and ruined...
Net neutrality means that telecoms have to treat all data as the same thing. There can be no fast lanes and slow lanes. They can charge you X amount of dollars for Y amount of data, but they can't charge X amount of dollars for Y amount of data from source A, and Z amount of dollars for Y amount of data from source B. ...
Ya but proving coercion is hard. People have admitted to crimes they couldn't possibly have committed then forced to falsely confess. There was a frontline documentary about false confessions, the worst one was where a guy was tortured into confessing to a murder committed during the time he was at work, at a convenien...
You shouldn't be getting downvoted. Coal-burning powerplants emit more radiation to the surrounding environment than nuclear plants do. Coal plants also have particle emissions, CO2, and other more dangerous compounds. The mining of coal also contributes greatly to environmental damage and greenhousegas emissions. Nu...
Nah. Your math just seemed off so I checked it. Then I thought I didn't understand your wording. So I took that into account. Still off. Then I thought it was that I didn't understand the metric system. Nope. Then I multiples by days, months, weeks. Still couldn't get 5200. It drove me temporarily insane.
Some fear issues, as /u/jay212127 said, but also some legitimate ones. Current reactors still have very radioactive spent fuel. Some spit out plutonium that can be refined into weapons. There are many solutions proposed, but we need more time and money invested to realize them completely. Fukushima scared many people...
There is plutonium produced in a traditional reactor, but what many people (frustratingly) don't understand is that its absolutely not as simple as: Run reactor ---> "We have plutonium. Oh no hide it quick!" These are different isotopes we are talking about here. This video . The Fukushima Daaichi disaster hype make...
Sounds like it, but what the voters want and what's actually good for the country are two entirely different things. Democracy would be great if we could trust the average person to acknowledge the need for short-term pain to ensure long-term prosperity, but sadly as a species we lack the ability to focus on anything ...
Someone has to say it so I will, Apple will become uncool within 5 years of Steve Jobs entry to the pearly gates, and we will be stuck with some asshat who will fuck it up and will make an iPhone with an SD card, multitasking, 2 cameras, open marketplace and android compatibility and we'll lament on how great the iPhon...
What the fuck? You just went on a women-tangent : but the same effect would come through if we simply doubled the amount of men in the population.
In a situation like that, I don't think it could be either considered borrowing, nor can it be considered theft. Depending on how you view it, the producer made their money from my legitimate PURCHASE of a product, which did not work, therefore I am entitled to a working copy as per the reason for the monetary transact...
Different, learning curve, scary, faster/better. could be a biased
To haters of the missing start button and the power button being tricky to find. (The UI is not the issue. They say don't blame the machine, blame the user.) I have practically NEVER used the start button for actually launching a program. I pin my favorites to the taskbar and then lesser used ones go on the desktop. ...
The outstanding issue I have with Windows 8 is that it's an entry point for the growing Microsoft ecosystem. Like Apple, Android, and others, Microsoft is attempting to build an entire ecosystem wherein one consumes content exclusively from Microsoft. Yet, I don't begrudge Microsoft for this move. In terms of market ...
The iPhone's markup/margins are topical to discussing margins within the smartphone industry, which is key to the point of this thread.
Although Google has officially sold out, people may cancel their orders throughout the days following the launch. When someone cancelled their order, stock very briefly opens up and lets someone reclaim that device. I know this because after constantly refreshing the page, the sold out icon changed to a button to add...
I don't mean to sound like an elitist jerk, so I appologize if I do - If so leave a note and I will certainly be willing to read it over and edit it (though I may end up editing it anyways, because I would rather not sound like an asshole - for that is not the intent) >To clarify, I think what you mean is a document ...
Thank you for sharing. This is one hell of a story. I don't know about the downvotes,
I understand what you're saying. But it's about displacement. If you pirate a song you wouldn't have bought, the satisfaction you get from it, i.e. the utility, displaces something else, most likely another song, you would have legally purchased. So yes, you may not have bought song (a) but in pirating it, you've displ...
You are missing a zero in there. $700 is roughly a third of $2200. The bill was $22,000. $700 would have been roughly 1/30th.
While we can all agree that 22k is stupid for any bit of this story. Does anyone else think maybe an 11 year old kid doesn't need to be alone in a hotel room in Mexico with an iPhone doing anything he wants? Especially after the parents neglect to realize that solar radiation burns and they should take precautions to p...
Funny you should say that because something quite like that may happen on Monday. [See here:]( > Judge Wright's order suggested that he is very concerned with Pietz' allegations about Prenda Law. In fact, he invited Pietz to submit a brief and to appear at the March 11, 2013 hearing on this OSC. In the order, Judge...
Because there isnt anything grand about this idea. We have had skimming technology for years decades centuries even. It isnt new. The only thing this does is probably utilize new materials (which I DOUBT the kid has studied to understand the tolerances and expectancy) and draw some pretty pictures. It doesnt addres...
In my experience (I have a stepkid with celiac) it is fairly rare for a high-protien animal-product substitute to be formulated without use of gluten-containing ingredients.
The media can trash them, opposing politicians during election time can trash them, even the people can trash them. Politics in the US isn't about being truthful about the issues, it's a popularity game. If your opponent has painted you to be a bad picture, you aren't going to win another election. The public you h...
I can appreciate your point, and certainly I can appreciate your thoughtful commentary, but I still must disagree; further, the quote I posted uses the term fascist very directly. Whether you find it to be the right term or not is irrelevant, because that is part of what makes the original post so laughable. In the c...
wtf i said it is possible backdoors could exist. i did not say it was fact. the mother fucker was skeptical that any backdoor could be injected into truecrypt because Open Source. i provided possible ways by showing that the source code is not "openly" audited (there are no commit logs, no one knows who committe...
Oh it's open source, so that makes it perfectly oK. for someone that is very skeptical I can invalidate your claim: They submitted a patch early on in the truecrypt days and have been actively maintaining it. Because it was "grandfathered in" before truecrypt became the tool that it is today, no one suspects it. ...
If I was American and my choice was between a charismatic leader figure that at least had the decency to pretend being pro transparency and civil rights, or vote for some halfbrained dingbat like Romney (or worse the election before that) I think my vote would go to Obama too. The error is in assuming that the halfbr...
I agree that there should be a greater push to protect an individual's right to digital privacy and online communications. From what I understand of electronic communications and privacy, law enforcement officials have used the "third party doctrine" , you can lose your right or expectation to privacy. This is espe...
So essentially, Taxpayer money went into building the structure in which the data is housed. Taxpayer money goes to the government, which in turn gives it to our very own phone companies.
I scanned this thread and I can't seem to find anyone else making this connection. Everyone is very upset about the NSA being able to "tap anyone, any time, without restrictions, unmonitored, direct access blah blah blah...". Doesn't this article state exactly the opposite? That they are running these wiretaps throu...
I keep hearing "PCs are dead" from dark corners of the internet and I assume it is because PCs are an open platform that give lots of options. As a population, we would be much easier to lead into public opinion through a more controlled platform, like a tablet. This looks like an attempt to get people to envision tigh...
Apple's profit margin is 21%, Samsung's PM is 11% - but wait, Samsung also manufactures washing machines, LED lightbulbs, and other household industry items that typically have a slim PM, so it's not an apt comparison. What about software then? Google's PM is 21% - but that's not quite right either, because they're ...
I'm not really disagreeing with your overall point about competition, I just think your perception of the industry is a little... I'm not sure the right word unfair? pessimistic? optimistic? unrealistic? Pessimistic because you think things are so bad now, optimistic because you think they can be so much better. Goo...
But the parts that are open are shrinking, more and more are pushed into abandonware. The article you linked only showed the case of apps being deprecated in favor of google services. No part of Android is changing from open source to proprietary. Furthermore, the number of 3rd party apps that replicate the functiona...
Damn. I'm not as special as I thought. I like the pre3 very much. The app supply sucks, especially in comparision to iOS or Android. Everything else is pretty cool. I am not sure what to say without giving away obvious information (it has a physical keyboard, etc.). Generally, it works very well and very fluent. But ...
Forget the law; push forward with encryption. Google can make it happen. If you send e-mail to other Gmail users it is automatically public-key encrypted. Initially, Google can host your private key for you, and everything will appear exactly the same, except now the e-mail is encrypted at rest. Courts will still be ...
Nothing is safe... unless you can build your own chip. From a linked Article in the first paragraph. "Take, for example, when they intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, [TAO]( can divert the shipping delivery to its own sec...
Thank GAWD! I bought a top-of-the-line $2200 VAIO from Sony in 2007 and that thing was a piece of shit. Within one year, pieces were falling off, keyboard was coming off, and there was a static electricity issue with the touchpad that required a restart very frequently. When it was taken back to Sony for repair, it ca...
Alright, time to write my review. It seems all of the internet is throughly unimpressed. Which I don't really understand. You didn't get your metal body. Good, plastic is cheaper. You didn't get a 2k screen. Good, I value my battery life. Let's look at what you did get. A larger battery, a screen that can be read...
I think the S4 hit the sweet spot for me Upgrades from S3 to S4 1080p display (over 720) biggest upgrade IMO Processor, graphics and RAM upgrade (not sure how they compare to the S3 performance though) Air Gesture (I actually use it) Universal Remote control Not so big upgrades Bigger screen (I...
This is bullshit. Basically what happened is the Verizon oversubscribed their network and now they're paying the price (capacity). They're making us pay the price (financial) to pay for the upgrades. Just who else do you think is going to pay for upgrades? Costs of doing business are passed onto consumers. So the c...
Firefox, now with more chrome! When Chrome came out, mozilla had a hissy fit. I forwarded them the twenty or so emails I've sent to them in the last five or six years asking them what are you doing?! with a list of message board links to patches I'd put forward and had been jeered at (just small stuff, but import...